Talk Heathen 07.20 with Secular Rarity and Tom Benson

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Secular Rarity is joined by Tom Benson. You can find more from Tom at https://howeverwegothere.com/

First caller is John in TX and asks why we do this show. Talking to callers like you! We want to engage in conversations to affect change. The call morphs to John claiming god is a philosophical, not scientific, conversation. Well, religion causes actual harm in the world. We just don’t have any good reasons to believe in any god.

Matt in CA announces the Secular Student Alliance National Conference on June 16-18 in St Louis, MO on the University of St Louis campus. Get your tickets NOW at https://secularstudents.org/conference/2023conference/

Nathan in FL presents instinctual evidence of a god. He claims that people, even atheists, calling out “oh my god” is evidence of a god. That is a very localized expression, other religions often call out something different. Those religions are often contradictory to christianity.

Rob in CO doesn’t understand why theists have difficulty seeing the bad stuff that comes with their religious beliefs. People tend to lean to simple answers that don't take much work. All we can do is challenge those beliefs and hope we can make a change.

Jay in the USA asks who or what is responsible for world wide education. People have passed along methods to further education and eliminate fallacious thinking.

Rob in NC brings up examples of the fine tuning argument. Science communicators tend to tone down their public presentations and minimize insider jargon when presenting to the public. We don’t understand everything about the universe and postulate hypotheses to investigate.

Thank you for tuning in today! The new question of the week is: If god favors humans, why are they so _____ ?

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0:00.0	And the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done. They will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. Wow, what a horrible book. You know, in fact, I don't think there's a single good thing that is exclusively found in the Bible. If you disagree, we've got open lines. Call in because the show is starting right now.
0:28.1	That's right, folks. Today is Sunday, May 21st, 2023, and I am your host, Secular Rarity, and joining me today
0:35.0	is somebody brand new to the wonderful talk heathen audience it's
0:38.5	tom benson what is up tom hey sart thanks for having me yeah i am good i'm excited to have you on man
0:45.6	um i know you've already been hanging out with us a little bit here at the ACA um but for everybody
0:51.0	here that doesn't know about you, what, tell us about yourself.
0:54.4	Who are you? What do you do? Why are you here, I guess? I mean, that's a lot of questions. You don't have to answer all of those. So many things all at once. Well, I run a podcast called, we're found at www. Whoever we got here.com or www. however we go there.com. You can get both of, both from work. But we have some, some similarities, parallels in terms of the folks that we engage with where we're talking to people out there in the world and a great crossover here. So found myself talking to you today. And we're dialing in from the East Coast and the Mountain Coast here right now.
1:28.5	That's right.
1:28.9	I'm excited to talk to some folks.
1:30.4	Yeah, it's going to be a good time, I think, folks.
1:32.8	And remember, Talk Heathen is a live call-in show.
1:37.0	And we have open lines.
1:38.6	We've already got a couple of calls, but we have even more lines available.
1:42.3	So get those calls in at 512-991-9242 or from your computer at tiny.
1:48.3	dot c-c-slash-call-T-H.
1:51.2	And as always, folks, I have to remind you because I am contractually obligated.
1:56.1	Talk Heathen is a product of the atheist community of Austin, a 501-C3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism, and the separation of religion and government.
2:08.2	All very important things and a wonderful, wonderful organization that is promoting them all.
2:14.3	So we are here to do that, folks. And again, we've got some open lines. But
2:18.2	before we grab one of these great calls, we are going to do the question of the week. Talk
2:24.6	heathen to me, folks. We do this every single week. We give you a question and we read out our
2:30.2	top three answers from last week. So last week we asked, if you had your own circle of hell,
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